#books

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

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I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I rarely read children's books. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I read my books aloud before they were published. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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My favorite books are a constantly changing list, but one favorite has remained constant: the dictionary. Is the word I want to use spelled practice or practise? The dictionary knows. The dictionary also slows down my writing because it is such interesting reading that I am distracted. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books. ↗

— Joseph Fiennes

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Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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